Over and over, Barack Obama told voters if they stuck with him "we will change this country and change the world." They did, and now their expectations for him to deliver are firmly planted on his shoulders.
Challenger Will Sessoms, a Virginia Beach businessman, won the race with a six percent margin.
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Warner beat another former governor, Republican Jim Gilmore, in the race to replace retiring five-term Sen. John Warner. The two Warners are not related.
Glenn Nye is the projected winner in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District race, WAVY.com has learned. WAVY.com's Political Reporter Melanie Woodrow says Thelma Drake will not be conceding tonight. She is waiting for all votes to be counted.
State elections officials have said Virginia could see an unprecedented Election Day turnout. Since Jan. 1, Virginia had added 436,000 people to its voting rolls.
As the countdown to election night continues, candidates in each race are using every resource they have to reach Virginia voters. They're called "surrogates."
A federal judge has refused to order longer voting hours in Virginia and reallocation of voting machines to black precincts in some localities.
John McCain's campaign has sued Virginia's electoral board, hours before the election, seeking to force the state to count late-arriving overseas military ballots.
After his campaign event at Christoper Newport University, Sen. John McCain sat down with WAVY's Kay Young for an exclusive interview. He spoke about bringing the nation together after a bruising campaign
Nye said that while the race was divisive at times that now it is important to put the campaign behind him and move forward in a bi-partisan effort to "solve the economic challenges facing this country
Barack Obama won Virginia, thanks to strong voter turnout across Hampton Roads, including the Peninsula.
Suffolk's first mayoral race featured a crowded ballot. But in the end, incumbent Linda Johnson won with a double-digit lead.
It's the talk of the election in Virginia Beach - a flyer of Democrat Senator Barack Obama shoulder to shoulder with Mayoral candidate Will Sessoms, a card carrying Republican.His fellow candidates were shocked.
The State Board of Elections says rain and human error are causing some problems at Virginia's polling places, Spokeswoman Susan Pollard said at a briefing in Richmond Tuesday
A federal judge has ordered election officials in Virginia to preserve late-arriving absentee ballots that Republican John McCain's campaign claims should be counted.
The lines were long at polling precincts in Virginia Beach. Voters told 10 On Your Side the average wait was about two hours to cast a ballot. But, in some cases, problems at the polls made that wait even longer.
Virginia continues to experience record turnout at its polls statewide. Despite the excessive volume, all Virginia polling places are open and functioning.
"Those still waiting to vote should be aware that turnout is very heavy, but precinct volunteers are working hard to make the lines move as quickly as possible.
A flood watch for some scattered urban and roadway flooding today. Cloudy with a steady soaking rain...some of it heavy at times. Highs low 60s. NE 10-20 mph. Rain tonight with lows near 60.
"A monumental time and I say it was monumental having gone through the history myself. It was different being a part of the history, but to witness history was really awesome," said Godbolt White.
Associated Press - November 6, 2008 1:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic officials say Barack Obama's fellow Chicagoan Rahm Emanuel has agreed to be White House chief of staff.
Associated Press - November 6, 2008 12:23 PM ET RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - President-elect Obama has won North Carolina, a symbolic triumph in a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat in more than a...
Associated Press - November 6, 2008 11:43 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic challenger in Oregon's Senate race, Jeff Merkley, has defeated Republican Sen. Gordon Smith.
Associated Press - November 6, 2008 10:03 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Rahm Emanuel knows what it's like to work in the White House, and while the Illinois congressman says he's honored that...
Associated Press - November 6, 2008 7:33 AM ET WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Sarah Palin is back in Alaska as some wonder whether she could be the Republicans' answer to a devastating...
Embattled former Rep. Eric Massa sought Tuesday night to turn attention away from sexual harassment allegations swirling around him in the wake of his resignation.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the close relationship between the United States and Israel as he met with Israeli leaders Tuesday, a visit that also touched on relations with Palestinians and Iran.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Why would a gay politician vote against gay rights?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is accustomed to working in the shadows, but he now finds himself in newspaper stories.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
A nearly $140 billion bill to extend unemployment benefits and a host of expiring tax cuts cleared a procedural hurdle Tuesday in the Senate on a vote of 66-34, setting up passage of the bill possibly later in the day.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The State Department spokesman apologized Tuesday for a joking remark he made about Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that threatened to turn into a diplomatic incident between the two countries.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
It's a grass-roots protest movement composed of the newly politicized and people distrustful of hierarchy. So how is it possible to be an illegitimate Tea Party member?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Democrats opposed to Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign are hoping to get an assist from the public in their latest bid to push voters away from the Republican candidate.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Some 65 years after their service, a group of former civilian women pilots whose unheralded work was key to helping the U.S. effort in World War II are being honored Wednesday with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Julian Zelizer says the GOP, by digging in its heels and opposing the health care bill, is taking a risk that could be costlier than the party thinks.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. ???The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory??? will also detail the business lessons of a $1 billion start-up.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
Monday, January 12, 2009
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final count, however, showed no sign of being settled soon.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Democrat edged ahead of his Republican incumbent on Friday for the first time in Minnesota's long-running U.S. Senate recount.
Friday, December 19, 2008
The mother of Levi Johnston, the 18-year-old boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's teenage daughter, has been arrested on drug charges, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman went before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to block improperly rejected absentee ballots from Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, with his lawyer warning that justices must act to prevent a repeat of the tortured 2000 Bush-Gore impasse.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
With the winner of Minnesota's U.S. Senate race still a mystery, a five-member board now steps in to see if a winner can be decided between rivals Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Jesus, Bob Dylan and Mickey Mouse will play a part in determining Minnesota's next senator. So will voters who scrawled the same name for every local race.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The decision by the Minnesota board overseeing the U.S. Senate recount has cleared the way for counting of wrongly rejected absentee ballots in the unresolved race is seen as a boost for Al Franken.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Democrats have taken a seat from House Republicans after the counting of provisional ballots in a race in central Ohio.
Monday, December 08, 2008
The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with an incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.
Monday, December 08, 2008
The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and Republicans raised concerns about his alleged bias in favor of sex offenders. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
President Obama has set an aggressive schedule for completing work on the bulk of the year-in-the-making health care package and may be getting the jump on the raft of Tea Party events set for the coming weeks. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The top Republican on the Senate committee that received an e-mail warning staffers not to visit the Drudge Report said there is no evidence "whatsoever" of an embedded virus on the news site and suggested the warning was a ruse to steer people away from the sometimes-incendiary page. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Former New York Rep. Eric Massa said sure he groped his male staff, but never sexually misbehaved and doesn't think that rough-play with other men is unusual, even at age 50.Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Conservative Republican Doug Hoffman says he plans to run again for upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District seat. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The president's speech comes as congressional Democrats stand on the brink of delivering the president a success with passage of his sweeping overhaul legislation -- or a colossal failure if they can't get it done.Wednesday, March 10, 2010
An intelligence official says that in the two months since a Nigerian man tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane, the government's list of suspected terrorists banned from flying grew from about 3,400 to 6,000.Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Without giving specifics, the defense secretary said the withdrawal, "would have to be conditions-based."Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system, the president says he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud.Wednesday, March 10, 2010
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."Wednesday, March 10, 2010
President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked frenzied trading.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
HarperCollins announced Tuesday that it will publish Brown's memoir, currently untitled, in early 2011.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Health insurers are a frequent and easy target, of course, but the question is whether their profits are responsible for higher health care costs or whether they're just a symptom of them.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
With NASA's space shuttle program coming to an end and the future of the manned space flight in doubt, President Obama is facing intense pressure over his budget priorities for the space agency.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year has won key GOP support that means it will soon pass the Senate.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The White House says the United States condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new settlement homes in disputed East Jerusalem.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The White House on Tuesday denied assertions by former Rep. Eric Massa that he was pushed out of office because he voted no on health care.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
A Florida state senator is reportedly pushing for new legislation that would increase tax breaks for the movie industry but deny the same incentives to films featuring gay characters.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Some leading Republican groups are trying to guide a revival of conservative student activism in the "era of Obama" -- the latest push comes this Thursday at California's Reagan Ranch Center, where dozens of high school students who caught the conservative bug will converge to get inspired, get organized and get active. Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Dozens of same-sex couples made a historic walk down the aisle in Washington Tuesday as gay marriage became legal in the nation's capital.Tuesday, March 09, 2010
President Obama heads to St. Louis Wednesday afternoon for another sleeves-rolled-up speech on the need for health-care reform as industry groups prepare a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign against his signature initiative.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Not long after Eric Massa joined Congress in January 2009, several male staff members began to feel uncomfortable with the sexually loaded language their boss routinely used, according to accounts relayed to the House ethics committee.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Seeking to reclaim the reform mantle amid a series of scandals, House Democratic leaders are advocating a move that would shake up the multibillion-dollar practice of awarding no-bid contracts known as congressional earmarks.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
As Republicans work to prevent a health-care bill from reaching President Obama, they are scrambling to exploit divisions between Democrats in the House and the Senate.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
As he takes the reins of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Sander M. Levin is vowing to raise the profile of a once-powerful panel that, in recent years, has been overshadowed by the ethics troubles of its previous chairman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
It's no secret that members of Congress broker deals on the treadmill or in the weight room of the House and Senate gyms. But former congressman Eric Massa's accusation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once berated him in the gym's shower over his vote against President Obama's budget left Washington watchers wondering how much business politicians conduct while naked.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
As Republicans work to prevent a health-care bill from reaching President Obama, they are scrambling to exploit divisions between Democrats in the House and Senate.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota's runaway-acceleration problems.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program created as a temporary bridge for laid-off workers is turning into an expensive entitlement.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Conservative activists rallied Monday to the side of a liberal New York Democrat who had resigned from the House, after he charged that his party's leaders had conspired to oust him over his opposition to President Obama's health-care legislation.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will seek President Obama's support at the White House on Tuesday for a European campaign to crack down on global financial speculation that critics say has exacerbated Europe's worst debt crisis in decades.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Liberals in the House, who have spent much of the past year complaining that other congressional Democrats and the White House are insufficiently progressive, will get a chance this week to vent about one of their biggest concerns: the war in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
President Obama nominated retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert A. Harding on Monday to lead the Transportation Security Administration, selecting someone unknown to the aviation industry and federal unions to lead one of the government's most visible agencies.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
NEW YORK -- Few will deny that the political landscape here in Harlem has yielded rich and galvanizing story lines. The arcs of those narratives have been taught and shared in classrooms across America.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Sometimes doing what you say in politics comes as a surprise.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Monday, March 08, 2010
MASON CITY, IOWA -- Republican Terry Branstad's lines have a familiar ring as he campaigns to return to the governor's office after 11 years away. He blasts the incumbent Democrat for "mismanagement," promising an "economic comeback" and the end of "more government than we can afford."
Monday, March 08, 2010
BEIJING -- Of the nearly 3,000 members of China's ruling elite in the country's capital this weekend to kick off the biggest political gathering of the year, only one has the state media and online commentators abuzz: Bo Xilai.
Monday, March 08, 2010
President Obama has the chance during his first term to appoint leaders for each of the federal agencies that oversee banks, an important opportunity to reshape the government's approach to regulation even as the White House struggles to push structural reforms through the Senate.
Monday, March 08, 2010
In "I, Alex Cross," the new bestseller set in Washington by James Patterson, fictional detective Alex Cross scans the ego wall in the office of a senator he's investigating:
Sunday, March 07, 2010
As Obama administration officials tried in recent weeks to anticipate what could go wrong in Sunday's elections in Iraq, they realized with some relief that they are largely powerless to control what happens.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Mark down this past week as a case study in why so many people are so angry with politicians and the practice of politics.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Democratic activists flooding money into a primary challenge against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) say the race isn't simply about defeating the incumbent. It is also about rebuking a Democratic-controlled Congress that they say isn't pursuing an aggressive, populist agenda.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
House Appropriations defense subcommittee member James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) works hard at fundraising: Two to three times a week, he telephones contributors to ask for more. Yet, according to the account he supplied to the Office of Congressional Ethics last year, he is unaware of "who made donations" or how much they gave, and so that information plays no role in his earmarking -- the systematic granting of public funds for mostly private purposes.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Remember how Republican Scott P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal blow to health-care reform?
Sunday, March 07, 2010
President Obama's top national security advisers will within days present him with an agonizing choice on how to guide U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the rest of his term.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Congressional Democrats reclaimed control of Congress in 2006 by pledging to "drain the swamp" after Republican ethics scandals rocked Capitol Hill. Now, a series of controversies involving Democratic members has robbed the party of its claim to hold the higher moral ground -- and could threaten its hold on power in this fall's elections.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
The setting was seemingly random: an outer gate at the Pentagon at evening rush hour. But John Patrick Bedell's violent rampage Thursday made him only the latest in the growing ranks of the disaffected and disturbed to take aim at a symbol of official Washington.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Lobbyists and corporate officials talked bluntly in e-mail exchanges about connections between making generous campaign donations and securing federal funds through members of an important House Appropriations subcommittee, according to not-yet-public documents reviewed by ethics investigators.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Saturday, March 06, 2010
In the three days since the leak of a confidential and crude Republican fundraising pitch, the party's leaders have scrambled to distance themselves from the 72-page PowerPoint depiction of President Obama as a socialist Joker -- and from the man behind it. Michael S. Steele, the Republican National Committee chairman, declared the pitch inappropriate and said it was the work of a "staffer."
Saturday, March 06, 2010
BAGHDAD -- When Iraqis go to the polls Sunday, they will do more than elect a new government to run a country still reeling seven years after the United States invaded it.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Separate House committees are demanding more information from Toyota and government regulators after executives from the embattled Japanese automaker appear to have given conflicting answers about the causes of runaway vehicle acceleration plaguing the company.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
House Democrats elevated Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), a pro-union, anti-free-trade liberal who is a close ally of the auto industry, to chairman of the Ways and Means Committee on Thursday.
Friday, March 05, 2010
As President Obama makes his final plea for a health-care overhaul, Democratic leaders in Congress are embarking on a delicate strategy to win over abortion opponents, a gambit that could determine whether the legislation becomes law.
Friday, March 05, 2010
President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.
Friday, March 05, 2010
As climate change legislation stalled in the Senate, the Obama administration noted that it had a workable -- although admittedly unwieldy -- Plan B. If Congress wouldn't cap U.S. emissions, officials said, the Environmental Protection Agency would do it instead.
Friday, March 05, 2010
National Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to control damage caused by an internal party document that caricatures President Obama as the Joker and stokes fear of socialism to raise money in a critical election year.
Friday, March 05, 2010
House Democrats elevated Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), a pro-union, anti-free-trade liberal who is a close ally of the auto industry, to chairman of the Ways and Means Committee on Thursday.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Friday, March 05, 2010
An aide to President Obama urged lawmakers on Thursday to make substantial progress on his health-care plan before he leaves on a foreign trip in mid-March, as Obama summoned wavering House Democrats to the White House for a private sales pitch.
Friday, March 05, 2010
